eli5: What is an “ego death”?
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euphemism for a drug binge that altered a person’s personality… alternatively if you study mindfulness and buddha the idea is that you don’t exist (this is stuff you *learn*, not “get high and figure out..”) this information is seemingly backed up by psychology and the fact that just about every cell in your body is in a constant state of being replaced.. that times the fact that every time you remember something you fundamentally change that memory(and so if you aren’t your memories, and you aren’t your body..yea..what is this?)
… so yea.. your ego should be dead already if you are paying attention, but a lot of people prefer stories and lies to reality because reality is difficult.
but also if you do get high on psychadelics this does tend to make you realize this acutely.. *because* these drugs facilitate the general situation that the brain is in.. i.e. nothing really makes sense, it is in constant motion.. and you are not the same person you were yesterday.. and very specifically if you get high on mushrooms(my prefrence) you are super weird.. so like in that moment you are particularly *not you*.. and if you did this voluntarily for your “entertainment” or whatever then this becomes fairly apparent because you will be expieriencing things that you typically wouldn’t, think things you typically wouldn’t.. ect… so yea.. you really don’t exist in any specific sense.. but you already knew that didn’t you?
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